Convergence and divergence in language contact situations / edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Juliane House.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braunmüller, Kurt, 1948-

House, Juliane.

Universität Hamburg. Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit.

Series:

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; 8.

Hamburg studies on multilingualism, 1571-4934 ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Congresses.

Languages in contact.

Bilingualism--Congresses.

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

viii, 241 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This article examines the production of iambic-shaped words by two monolingual German, two monolingual Spanish and two German-Spanish bilingual children, aiming to contribute to the understanding of stress acquisition in early childhood. Target iambic words produced at ages 1;0 to 2;6, have been auditorily and acoustically analyzed, focusing on rhyme duration. Results show that whereas German monolinguals at first often truncate the unstressed syllable, Spanish monolinguals hardly show any truncation, but at about 1;8 convert iambs to trochees. These diverging behaviors respond to different analyses, based on target language differences: Whereas German monolinguals analyze iambic words as comprising a moraic trochee preceded by an unfooted syllable, Spanish monolinguals analyze them as quantity insensitive iambs. The bilinguals show some interaction between both systems.

Contents:

Divergence, convergence, contact : challenges for the genealogical classification of languages / Georg Bossong

Increases in complexity as a result of language contact / Östen Dahl

Converging genetically related languages : endstation code mixing? / Kurt Braunmüller

Converging languages, diverging varieties : innovative relativisation patterns in Old Swedish / Steffen Höder

Converging verbal phrases in related languages : a case study from Faro-Danish and Danish-German language contact situations / Karoline H. Kühl & Hjalmar P. Petersen

Convergence and divergence of communicative norms through language contact in translation / Viktor Becher, Juliane House & Svenja Kranich

On the importance of spontaneous speech innovations in language contact situations / Robert E. Vann

Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish / Susana Cortés, Conxita Lleó & Ariadna Benet

Comparing the representation of iambs by monolingual German, monolingual Spanish, and bilingual German-Spanish children / Javier Arias & Conxita Lleó.

Notes:

Mostly based on the contributions to a symposium held in October 2007 at the Hamburg Research Centre on Multilingualism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612444890

9781282444898

1282444891

9789027288820

9027288828

OCLC:

705531054